On January 29, 2017, a prominent Myanmar lawyer and icon of constitutional reform Ko Ni was shot in the head as he hailed a taxi at Yangon airport.
His assassination—by military affiliates—sent shockwaves through the country.
The brazen act was yet another indication that despite governance by an elected civilian administration, the Myanmar military was willing to use brute force to eliminate those who threatened its own carefully orchestrated place in politics.
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